Introduces students to the moral relevance of health and the use of ethics in the assessment of health policy. Acquaints students with a number of theories of justice. Students explore contemporary health care and public health policy issues using the lens of ethical analysis to supplement other approaches to policy analysis.

Learning Objectives:

This course will prepare you to be able to do the following:

Use ethics as a tool, in the assessment of policy options

Identify and consider ethical issues relevant to health policy development and implementation

Analyze policy options with new-found ethical skills and begin to reason through appropriate courses of action